Thursday, August 7, 2008

Massachusetts Gets It Wrong Again

How not to lower health costs

By Joseph D. Coletti

Categories: Individual Mandates, Massachusetts

According to governing.com, Massachusetts is trying to cut health care costs with "a commission to develop uniform billing and coding standards for health care providers and insurers," statewide adoption of electronic health records by 2015, and expanded enrollment at UMass med school plus incentives for graduates to go into primary care.

Still nothing on reducing mandates or other market-based reforms, just new ways for the government to intervene and increase spending in other areas of government.